The main objective of PARSIFAL is to establish the scientific and engineering basis for improving the civil air transport of the next future by introducing an innovative aircraft, known as “PrandtlPlane”, into service. The project is focused on the medium size commercial aircraft category, in which the adoption of the PrP configuration can confer to aircraft with the same overall dimensions and fuel consumption of a A320/B737 the payload capacity of a A330/B767.
In addition, a further objective of PARSIFAL is to develop the design tools that would allow to investigate the application of the PrP configuration to other aircraft categories, such as the ultra-large airliners, for which the PrP can provide a huge increase of payload (passengers and freight), keeping the dimensions fully compatible with existing airports.

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ENSAM / I2M Bordeaux WP

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My team, the ENSAM/I2M is leader of WP5 which focuses on the optimisation of the structural parts of the aircraft (the wings and the fuselage). Two different solutions are proposed an aluminium-based (the conventional one) and the composite-based. The composite solution will be obtained by using a multiscale two-level optimisation (MS2L) strategy (which is also employed and improved within the SMARTCOMPOSITE project for VSCs) coupled with a local-global finite element approach. The WP5 is completed with a final task that concerns the experimental validation of the MS2L strategy through an experimental campaign on optimised stiffened panels.